Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] important " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 2 | The Independent of April 8 noted that this Luxembourg meeting of the European Council would be the fourth special meeting in 18 months [ see pp. 37028 ; 37363-64 ; 37782-83 ] and detected " a subtle but important change in the character of the Community , away from supranational roots where the European Commission holds sway , towards a more intergovernmental future under the guiding hand of the European Council " . |
| 3 | Emergency Debates are allowed at the discretion of the Speaker under Standing Order 20 if he considers that an application relates to " a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration . " |
| 4 | I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ The need for a debate on the closure of the Volvo bus plant , formerly known as Leyland National , in my constituency ’ . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) seeks leave to move the Adjournment of the House , under Standing Order No. 20 , for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ The closure of the Leyland Volvo bus manufacturing plant in Workington , with the loss of 370 jobs , announced this weekend . ’ |
| 6 | I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the announcement by British Coal of the loss of 13,000 jobs at the Prince of Wales , Sharlston , Kellingley and Whitemoor collieries and the closure of the topping cycle plant at Grimethorpe . ’ |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the effect on unemployment of the announcement by British Coal to further run down the coal industry in his own and in neighbouring constituencies . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The risk of pregnancy is a further and important distinguishing characteristic of rape . ’ |
| 9 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 10 | So your donation will play a direct and important part in our work . |
| 11 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 12 | A splinter group of the NPFL , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , had emerged by this time as a separate and important force . |
| 13 | It was a vague but important time in the cultural and social history of the western world , a good time for those who were in it and enjoying themselves , a bad time for those who were dismayed at ‘ young people today ’ . |
| 14 | This is often justified on the grounds that law is not a distinct and important element in understanding systems of government , but there are professional reasons too . |
| 15 | It made her very uneasy having hir in the same building as Ari at such a dangerous and important time . |
| 16 | This is a serious and important problem which has to be tackled . |
| 17 | While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens . |
| 18 | The complexity of buildings constructed today , and the large proportion of the work involving services , have led to the need for specialist subcontractors who play a large and important role in the building process . |
| 19 | I believe it may be the Bowes Moor Hotel now , which I hear is quite a large and important establishment and in a very good position on the main road to the M6 . |
| 20 | Education is a large and important example . |
| 21 | This is a large and important northern constellation , leading out from the Square of Pegasus in the direction of Capella . |
| 22 | Reference must also be made to a brief but important statement by the Privy Council , in the course of an elaborate opinion , largely concerned with other matters , in Government of the United States of America v. Bowe [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 500 . |
| 23 | ‘ Bert , who in the play is around ten , has a brief but important and dramatic role about a tragedy that befalls an American family , ’ said Patricia . |
| 24 | This argument assumes that reducing surprise is a valuable and important goal of political morality . |
| 25 | She will not say what the item is , claiming ( reasonably ) that she wo n't divulge the secret of a valuable or important item to people she does not know and can hardly be expected to trust . |
| 26 | For productivity the substitution of the iron for the wooden plough , or even — a neglected but important development — of the scythe for the sickle , were more important than the application of steam power , which never found the basic labours of the farm congenial , since it was largely immobile . |
| 27 | There is evidence on both questions , from a unique and important data source : the MRC 's follow-up study of the 1946 birth cohort , the National Survey of Health and Development , which also provided material for some of Kathleen Kiernan 's research discussed in chapter 3 . |
| 28 | All PNP appointees had job specifications — a welcome and important innovation . |
| 29 | ‘ Bringing the law back in ’ is a worthy and important endeavour ; as Stone notes , the story of the control of marriage in England is radically different from that in France largely because of its different state structure . |
| 30 | Rather , I see the process as continuing way into the future — a process in which Britain must play a leading and important part . |